Buchanan Renewables President Joel Strickland says it is a low-cost, intermediate solution to Liberia's energy needs, while repairs to the Mt.Coffee hydroelectric facility are at least five years away.

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In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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And what it's used is to convert one type of group, what's called a carboxylic acid into another type of very reactive intermediate, which is called an acid chloride.

它被用来将一类被称作羧酸的化合物，转化成另外一类活性很高的反应中间体,也就是酰氯。

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But on Friday, the panel said it also would study reusing a Newtown intermediate school or moving Sandy Hook Elementary to a former mental hospital campus that now includes a municipal town center and a youth academy.

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"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms, " he said.

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The idea of storing energy from a spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch.

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